About me:
My name is Roland Windsor Vincent. I'm an attorney, an environmentalist, an animal rights advocate and a Democrat.
We founded the Committee for the Court in 1984, 25 years ago. Since then we have been working diligently to support and elect a President of the United States who would appoint justices to the US Supreme Court whose judicial and political philosophies would ensure the protection and expansion of individual rights and freedoms under the Constitution.
I was a litigant before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark free speech case in 1984, City of Los Angeles v Taxpayers for Vincent.
The Court held that political free speech could be restricted by government for as trivial a public interest as aesthetics. This unbelieveable ruling led me to launch the Committee for the Court.
With the election of Barack Obama, the first progressive Democrat since FDR, the opportunity to change the direction of the Court has never been better.
Please join with us in urging President Obama to appoint Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence H. Tribe to the first vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
As time permits, this page will be updated with links and information on the Court, Laurence Tribe and his writings, and with Action Alerts and membership information for the Committee.
Note: This is not the U.S. Supreme Court's official page.
My thanks to Natasha Johnstone for the graphics and design.
I can be reached at rolandvincent@yahoo.com or email me or call 818.288.5855
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Laurence Henry Tribe (born in Shanghai October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law experts and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of American Constitutional Law (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 34 times.
Tribe attended Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966). Tribe was a champion policy debater at Harvard, and later a college coach and high school summer institute teacher.
Tribe served as a law clerk to Matthew Tobriner on the California Supreme Court from 1966-67, and as a law clerk to Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967-68. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968, receiving tenure in 1972.
In addition to his stature as a scholar, Tribe is noted for his extensive support of progressive legal causes. He has argued many high-profile cases, including one for Al Gore during the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tribe's client in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, holding that a Georgia state law criminalizing sodomy, as applied to consensual acts between persons of the same sex, did not violate fundamental liberties under the principle of substantive due process. However, he was vindicated in 2003, when the Supreme Court overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas. He wrote the ACLU's amicus curiae brief supporting Lawrence, who was represented by Lambda Legal.
Tribe continues to strongly support progressive political causes. He is one of the co-founders of the progressive American Constitution Society, the law and policy organization formed to counter the conservative and libertarian Federalist Society.
He actively supported the candidacy of president-elect Barack Obama, and describes Obama as "the best student I ever had." Alongside Harvard's Cass Sunstein, Tribe served as judicial adviser to Obama's campaign.
Laurence H. Tribe is the pre-eminent constitutional law scholar of our time. His brilliant legal wrtings attest to his qualification to sit on the United States Supreme Court.
Displayed below are the most recent 50 publications of Professor Tribe, who has authored 267 publications.
Books
Tribe, Laurence H. The Invisible Constitution (Oxford University Press 2008).
Tribe, Laurence H. American Constitutional Law, Volume I (Foundation 3d ed. 2000).
Shorter Works in Collection
Tribe, Laurence H. "eroG .v hsuB: Through the Looking Glass" in Bush v. Gore: The Question of Legitimacy 39 (Bruce Ackerman ed., Yale University Press, 2002).
Articles in a Periodical
Tribe, Laurence H. "Reflections on Unenumerated Rights," 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 483 (2007).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship of Laurence Tribe," 42 Tulsa Law Review 797 (2007).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Learning What From a Nominee?s Views of Past Court Rulings?" The Pocket Part, A Companion to the Yale Law Journal, January 2006.
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Inverted Constitution: Presidential Hegemony and the Eclipse of Privacy," 12 The Berlin Journal 41 (2006).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Grober Missbrauch ?ntlicher Gewalt," 5 Internationale Politik 116 (2006).
Tribe, Laurence H. "On Judicial Review," Dissent, Summer 2005, at 81.
Tribe, Laurence H. "The People?s Court , October 24, 2004 at 32," The New York Review of Books, October 24, 2004, at 32 (book review).
(reviewing Larry D. Kramer, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (2004))
Dershowitz, Alan M., Patrick O. Gudridge, Henry Paul Monaghan, Richard D. Parker, Aviam Soifer, Kathleen M. Sullivan & Laurence H. Tribe. "In Memoriam: John Hart Ely," 117 Harvard Law Review 1743 (2004).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Lawrence v. Texas: The 'Fundamental Right' That Dares Not Speak Its Name," 117 Harvard Law Review 1893 (2004).
Tribe, Laurence H. & Patrick O. Gudridge. "The Anti-Emergency Constitution," 113 Yale Law Journal 1801 (2004).
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Unbearable Wrongness of Bush v. Gore," 19 Constitutional Commentary 571 (2003).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Public Rights, Private Rites: Reliving Richmond Newspapers For My Father," 6 The Green Bag 289 (2003). Also reprinted in 5 The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 163 (2003)
Tribe, Laurence H. "Lost at the Equal Protection Carnival: Nelson Lund's Carnival of Mirrors," 19 Constitutional Commentary 619 (2003).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Liberty for All," 27 Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum 18 (2002).
Tribe, Laurence H. & Neal K. Katyal. "Waging War, Deciding Guilt: Trying the Military Tribunals," 111 Yale Law Journal 1259 (2002).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Trial By Fury," The New Republic, December 10, 2001, at 18.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Disentangling Symmetries: Speech, Association, Parenthood," 28 Pepperdine Law Review 641 (2001).
Tribe, Laurence H. "eroG v. hsuB and its Disguises: Freeing Bush v. Gore from its Hall of Mirrors," 171 Harvard Law Review 170 (2001).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Ten Lessons Our Constitutional Experience Can Teach Us About the Puzzle of Animal Rights: The Work of Steven M. Wise," 7 Animal Law 1 (2001).
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Supreme Court, 1998 Term--Comment: Saenz Sans Prophesy: Does the "Privileges or Immunitites" Revival Reveal the Future--or Expose the Hidden Structure of the Present?" 113 Harvard Law Review 110 (1999).
Tribe, Laurence H. "Defining 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors': Basic Principles," 67 George Washington Law Review 712 (1999).
Articles in a Newspaper
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Supreme Court is Wrong on the Death Penalty," The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2008, at A13.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Signing statements? are a phantom target," The Boston Globe, August 9, 2006.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Bush Stomps on Fourth Amendment," The Boston Globe, May 16, 2006, A15.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Alito's World," The Boston Globe, November 7, 2005, (Op-Ed), at A13.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Gentleman of the Court," The New York Times, September 6, 2005, (Op-Ed), at A31.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Letter to the Editor - Nader and Florida, 2004," The New York Times, September 23, 2004, at A26.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Supreme Constraint," The Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2004, at A14.
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Ninth Cirucuit got it Right," The Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2003, at A16.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Finely Judged to Last the Distance," Financial Times, June 27, 2003, at 13.
Tribe, Laurence H. & Lawrence Summers. "Race is Never Neutral," The New York Times, March 29, 2003, at A25.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Unraveling the Old Myths that Foster Sexual Violence," The Boston Globe, June 17, 2002, at A11.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Citizens, Combatants and the Constitution," The New York Times, June 16, 2002, at 13.
Tribe, Laurence H. "A Black Hole For Victim's Rights," The Boston Globe, March 29, 2002, at A19.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Misjudging Doris Kearns Goodwin," The Harvard Crimson, March 18, 2002, at A-9.
Tribe, Laurence H., George P. Fletcher & Cass R. Sunstein. "The Military Tribunal Debate, An Exchange Among George P. Fletcher, Cass R. Sunstein, and Laurence Tribe," The American Prospect, February 11, 2002, at 5.
(and at 4 on February 25, 2002)
Tribe, Laurence H. "Military Tribunals: Too Broad a Power," The New York Times, December 7, 2001, at A30.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Gun Lover Misstates the Case: Courts Never Have Said Right to Bear Arms is Unrestricted," San Francisco Daily Journal, November 16, 2001, at 4.
Tribe, Laurence H. "We Can Strike a Balance on Civil Liberties," The Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2001, at A18.
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Supreme Court: Consistency Rules," The New York Times, July 16, 2001, at A16.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Let the Courts Decide," The New York Times, November 12, 2000, Section 4, at 15.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Justice Taken Too Far," The New York Times, April 25, 2000, at A31.
Tribe, Laurence H. "If Only Prof. Ackerman's Theory Were Right," The National Law Journal, December 28, 1999, at A24.
Tribe, Laurence H. & Akhil Reed Amar. "Well-Regulated Militias, and More," The New York Times, October 28, 1999, at A25.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Whose 'Right to Bear Arms' Is It?" The New York Times, June 13, 1999, Sec. 4, at 16.
Tribe, Laurence H. "The Internet vs. the First Amendment," The New York Times, April 28, 1999, at A29.
Tribe, Laurence H. "Miranda Warning is Law of the Land," The Boston Globe, February 15, 1999, at A17.
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